Basket for holding dishes and plates.



A. INSINGER.

BASKET PoR HOLDING DIsHBs 0R PLATES.

v APPLICATION FILED MAR.10,`1908. v 928,762. Patented July 20, 1909.

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.,UNnrEnsTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED INsINGER, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA;

nasignfr ronnonnme msm arm -Pm'rnn To all whom 'it may concern:

I Beit'known `that I, ALFRED INBINGER, a` extraen` of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in tlievcounty of I hiladelphia and State ofPennsylvanimfhave invented a certain new and usefullmprovement inllaskets for Holding Dishes or Plates, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to baskets for holding dishes or plates whilethey are being cleansed by washing machines, and it has for object tolprovide a simple, durable and inexpensive asket adapted to hold thedishes or plates firmly While inprocess of cleansing and rinsing, and itconsists of the parts and combinations of parts hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved dish holding basket. Fig.'2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the basket. Fig. 3 is allransverse vertical section through the bas- Similar letters' refer tosimilar parts throughout the several views.

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, Referring to the drawings A represents, the top bar and B the bottombar vof the ends and sides of the basket. The bars named are arranged ata suitable distance apart .and are bent to shape and to form the sidesand ends of the basket. The bottom, proper, of the basket is composed ofthe bars C, D,

and E, extending lengthwise of the basket and having their ends bentupwardly and Vriveted to the to and bottom bars A and B,

the ends of the ars C and D terminating in line with the top bar A andthe bars E extending past said top bar and being connected by a ar F inorder to form handles for the basket;

Nearone end of the basket a bar G is arranged across the basket and itsends bent at right angles, as at a, and riveted to the Itop bar. The barG thus serves as a brace or stay for the basket and one of its ends, andserves as a splice bar, to connect the abutting ends of the top bar A;

The` transverse bar G is bent at its center, as at c, toward theadjacent end of the basket, and supports. one side of a wire netting Hwhich is secured thereto by a loop d.

`The wire netting is shaped to form a pocket Bpecication ofLettersiabent. Application med Maren Io, 1908. serial No. 120,251.

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At the other end ofthe basket a bar I is arranged across the basket andhas its ends bent at right an les and riveted to the top bar. This bar,is bent at its center away from the adjacent end of the basket, 'as at eand serves as a support for a wire netting which is bent to shape and'fits in the end of the basket in order to form a cket therein. Thenetting J is secured to the ar I by a wire, loop f and to the bent endof one of the bottom bars, ras any,... l

To the inner face of the top bar A `at each side .of the v basket anarrow metalplate K having a series of-lugs h projecting at rightangles-therefrom, is secured, saidlugs being j preferably triangular inshape.

To the bars E plates L having lugs i, sinnlar to those above described,are riveted in' the space between the ockets formed by the Wire nettin sH and g which lugs, as best shown in ig. v2, alternate or break jointwith the lugs on the top bar.

N represents a cylindrical bar which extends longitudinally of thebasket and is arranged a short distance above the bottom thereof and hasits ends secured in the central end bar D at each end of the basket. Thebar N serves as a stay for the basketl and 'also as a rest or supportfor the `dishes the edges of which rest against each side thereof,

` as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

stan obliquely in the basket and rest avainst y the bar N. IThisarrangement of the dishes or plates provides for the access of water toarts of the dishes lor plates when the bas et is lowered into the tanksand at the same time insures the dishes or plates being firmly heldagainst movement while the basket is being lowered and 4raised inthewire nettings H and J 1s to receive artic es of `table ware such asknives, forks, and spoons,

and in which they are loosely thrown and from. which they cannot escapewhile being cleansed.

Having thus described my 'invention whatv I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. A basket for holdindishes or the like having1 bars disposed at t etog of the opposite si es of the basket provide with spaced l lugs a airof bars disposed upon the bottom of t e asket and provided withsimilarly s aced lugs, and a rod connecting the ends of bars andavingthe opposite halves thereof t e basket between the top and bottomthereof and located approximately midway the bars on the bottom of thebasket.

2. A basket for holding dishes or the like comprising a rectangularYframe provided with side and bottom bars, bars at each end extendingacross the top of said frame, said bars bein disposed at an angle -tothe side disposed at an angle to each other, each half ters of saidangularly disposed bars, and bars provided with spaced lugs secured tothe bottom of the frame between said andgular bars and u on the op ositesides of sai rod.-

3. `A bas et for holrding dishes or the like comprising a rectangularframe provided with side and bottom bars, bars at each end extendingacross the top of said frame, said bars bein disposed at an an le to theside bars and aving the opposite alves thereof disposed at an angle toeach other, each half of one bar being parallel with the correspondinghalf of the other bar, bars havin spaced lugs secured to the topl of theframe etween saldangularly dis osed bars, a rod connecting the ends of te frame between the top and bottom thereof and in line with the centersof said angularly disposed bars, bars provided with spaced lugsv securedto the ottom of the frame between said an lar bars and upon the oppositesides of sai rod, and ai foraminous pocket at each end of said ame.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature,

in the presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED INSINGER. Witnesses:

' S. G. PoLLooK,

C.' R. KLo'rz.

